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H.G. Parry QUOTES

H.G. Parry QUOTES

1 " It scares the living daylights out of everybody. Present company excepted, I’m sure.” “I don’t really do living or daylight,” Dorian said. “I’m a Gothic masterpiece. "

― H.G. Parry , The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

2 " Things in writing exist. They are not always true. But they exist. "

― H.G. Parry , The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

3 " Something has to be heard to be ignored. He heard me this time, and he ignored me. "

― H.G. Parry , The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

4 " Sometimes I think my brain opened as far as it could go when I was about seventeen, and its doors have been just stuck there ever since. And now they're ossifying and collecting cobwebs, and things are spilling in, swirling around for a bit, and then flying out again. And someday they'll start to swing slowly shut, and I'll be left in the dark with nothing but a few rustling fragments of thoughts that get thinner and weaker every time I use them. Like tea leaves. And sometimes I think I can do anything. "

― H.G. Parry , The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

5 " Points of light. They make a map, or a pattern,or a constellation. Formless, intricate, infinitely complex, and lovely. And then, at once, they'll connect. They'll meet, and explode. Of course. That's the entire point. That's how the story works, the way each sentence and metaphor and reference feeds into the other to illuminate something important. That explosion of discovery, of understanding, is the most intoxicating moment there is. Emotional, intellectual, aesthetic. Just for a moment, a perfect moment, a small piece of the world makes perfect sense. And it's beautiful. It's a moment of pure joy, the kind that brings pleasure like pain. "

― H.G. Parry , The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

6 " But I need to reassure the others first. They’ll be all out of sorts.” “Reassure them of what?” “Oh, you know,” she said. “Everything’s perfectly all right, that sort of thing.” “And is it?” Charley asked. “Of course not,” she snorted. “If it were, they wouldn’t need me to tell them. "

― H.G. Parry , The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

7 " Every supporting character is the protagonist of his own story. "

― H.G. Parry , The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

8 " you know when you read a book, sometimes, and you suddenly realize that you’ve been missing something your whole life, and you weren’t even aware, and all at once you’ve found it and are just a little bit more whole? "

― H.G. Parry , The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

9 " That’s what all laws should do. Impose the restrictions that, if human beings were always moral and rational, they would impose upon themselves. "

― H.G. Parry , A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians (The Shadow Histories #1)

10 " I thought you said everything in a book has meaning.” “It does! That doesn’t mean it means what you want it to mean! "

― H.G. Parry , The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

11 " Kind people don't make things happen. They try to prevent bad things from happening, and they fail, and they live in fear of that failure. So do those under their protection "

― H.G. Parry , The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

12 " I sometimes think ‘just this once’ is the most dangerous phrase in the English language. "

― H.G. Parry , A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians (The Shadow Histories #1)

13 " I don’t care what everyone says, damaging books is worse than damaging people. People heal up. Books never do. The marks always show. "

― H.G. Parry , The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

14 " History is every bit as much of a story as fiction. "

― H.G. Parry , The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

15 " Truth, at least complete truth, isn’t held in words. But there would be no truth at all without them. It lies behind them and lurks around them and shines through them, in glimpses of metaphor, and connotation, and story. "

― H.G. Parry , The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

16 " There are coincidences in life, not in books. Everything in a book is placed there for a reason. What’s the reason for this one? "

― H.G. Parry , The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

17 " As I recall,” Millie said, “in your book, your secret isn’t revealed until you stab your painting in the heart.” He shrugged. “That’s how all secrets are revealed, in the end. Either someone else betrays us, or we betray ourselves. "

― H.G. Parry , The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

18 " People weather storms they should never be able to survive and then collapse once they’ve passed, as though the storm itself kept them upright. "

― H.G. Parry , A Radical Act of Free Magic (The Shadow Histories, #2)

19 " Books don’t hurt people.” “What comes out of them jolly well does. "

― H.G. Parry , The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

20 " There is not a poem on earth that doesn't make sense to anyone. "

― H.G. Parry , The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep